Bothroponera fugax Forel
  Type location Tanzania
(Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) fugax n. sp., Forel, 1907a: 7, worker; new genus status by Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76) collected at Arusha-Chini, Lake Djipé, by
Katona - no type images on Antweb (June 2014).
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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Forel's (1907a) description is at  .
WORKER - TL 6.5-7 mm; head, thorax and petiole finely
and densely punctate with overlaid coarse fossettes; mandibles striate
at the tip; eyes vestigial but with about 45 facets.
In Ghana, 12 workers were found by Belshaw &
Bolton (1994b) in leaf litter samples from cocoa at Effiduase and
Nankiri, primary forest at Bobiri, and secondary forest at Atewa Forest
Reserve (1992).
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Bothroponera fugax
B Taylor det. |
Tanzania
V Grebennikov
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09-11.x.2002
Usambara Mts
5°05' S
38°38' E
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Amani NR, Zigi
Lodge, 2200 m
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Tanzania; Usambara Mts,
Amani NR, Zigi Lodge; collector V.
Grebennikov.
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 The
photomontage of a worker from Tanzania, is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-c009280a.
Listed by Robertson (1999) as Pachycondyla nr. sculpturata.
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